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File:	`README.md`
Role:	Documentation
Content type:	`text/markdown`
Description:	Documentation
Class:	PHP XML to JSON Conversion Convert a XML document into a JSON string
Author:	By Temuri Takalandze
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Date:	3 years ago
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xml-to-json

Simple way to convert XML to JSON.

Installation

You can install this library with Composer:

`composer require abgeo/xml-to-json`

Usage

Include composer autoloader in your main file (Ex.: index.php)

`require __DIR__.'/../vendor/autoload.php';`

This package gives you the ability to convert XML string/file to JSON string/file. For this, we have two converters: - ABGEO\XmlToJson\StringConverter - ABGEO\XmlToJson\FileConverter

Let's look at them in action.

Convert XML String to JSON string

Create simple XML file:

example.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<profile>
    <firstName>Temuri</firstName>
    <lastName>Takalandze</lastName>
    <active>true</active>
    <position>
        <title>Developer</title>
        <department>
            <title>IT</title>
        </department>
    </position>
</profile>

Create an object of class ABGEO\XmlToJson\StringConverter and read the content of example.xml into a variable:

$converter = new StringConverter();
$xmlContent = file_get_contents(__DIR__ . '/example.xml');

Now you can convert value of $xmlContent variable to JSON object:

$jsonContent = $converter->convert($xmlContent);

if you print this variable, you will get the following result:

echo $jsonContent;

//{
//    "profile": {
//    "firstName": "Temuri",
//        "lastName": "Takalandze",
//        "active": "true",
//        "position": {
//        "title": "Developer",
//            "department": {
//            "title": "IT"
//            }
//        }
//    }
//}

Convert XML file to JSON file

Consider that you already have the example.xml file described in the step above. Now let's create an object of ABGEO\XmlToJson\FileConverter class:

$converter = new FileConverter();

Using the convert method of this object, you can simply convert the XML file to a JSON file:

$converter->convert(__DIR__ . '/example.xml', __DIR__ . '/example.json');

Convert() takes two arguments - the path to the input and output files. If you do not specify an output file, by default it will be {$inputFile}.json.

Finally, the Convert () method will generate a new example.json with the following content:

example.json

{
    "profile": {
        "firstName": "Temuri",
        "lastName": "Takalandze",
        "active": "true",
        "position": {
            "title": "Developer",
            "department": {
                "title": "IT"
            }
        }
    }
}

See full example here.